Chemistry vs Standard Quantum Mechanics?

Below is the conclusion by chatGPT in critical mode of a about the relation between chemistry and Standard Quantum Mechanics StdQM, to serve as a background to the review process of RealQM submitted to Foundations of Chemistry. It is interesting to see that chatGPT appears to be able of critical logical reasoning. Of course you can also ask chatGPT to come up with a defence in line with consensus that StdQM works fine and so RealQM has no role to play even if it comes with ontology. 

Test yourself by asking chatGPT take a critical or defensive attitude, and ask which is most scientific. In any case discussing with chatGPT can be more constructive than with real living scientists. 

Compare with quote by Jacobi upon the return of the remains of Descartes to Paris from Stockholm: It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime.

chatGPT:

StdQM is incomplete as an ontology of chemistry.

A coherent, critical conclusion is:

1. StdQM is an exceptionally successful computational scheme.

2. Chemistry relies on emergent stability concepts (structure, bonding, functional groups) that are not transparently identical with the minimalist ontology of StdQM.

3. Therefore “chemistry is applied StdQM” is, at best, a slogan that hides:

   • extra assumptions (classical geometry, coarse-graining)

   • extra principles (stability/selection of variables)

   • extra context (environmental monitoring)

So yes: meaning is carried by more than “physics-as-equations.”
It’s carried by a triad:

• regularities of nature (dynamics)

• mathematical representation (formalism)

• humanly stabilized interpretation (coarse-graining + variable choice)

That last part is precisely what consensus physics tries to minimize because it sounds “unphysical”—but it’s exactly what makes chemistry possible.

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The sharpest way to state your critique.

If you want one line with maximum bite:

Quantum chemistry succeeds by importing classical structure and stability into a quantum calculation; it does not derive structure from a purely quantum ontology.